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Given the following data for Albert\'s fabricating production area: Fixed costs

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Question

Given the following data for Albert's fabricating production area: Fixed costs for one shift = $60,000 Unit variable cost = $7 Selling price = $12 Number of machines = 6 Number of working days in year = 340 Processing time per unit = 40 minutes What is the annual capacity with a single eight-hour shift? What is the capacity with two shifts? What is the break-even volume with a single-shift operation? What is the maximum revenue with a single shift? What is the break-even volume with a two-shift operation?

Explanation / Answer

Given :

Fixed cost for one shift: $60,000

Unit Variable cost: $ 7

Selling Price: $12

Number of Machine: 6

Number of working days in a year: 340

Processing Time per unit: 40 minutes

(a) Annual Capacity with single eight hour shift:

Total number of machines = 6
Shift hours per day = 8 hours

Processing Time per unit: 40 minutes

So total factory capacity (in hours) for one day

Number of Machine* shift hour per day

= 6*8 hours = 48 hours

So, total factory capacity (in hours) for one year

=Total factory capacity in one day* Number of working days in a year / Processing time per unit         

= 48 hours *340*60 /40= 24480 unit/shift

(as processing time is given in minutes, so to convert in hour it is multiplied by 60)

So Annual capacity with single eight hour shift is 24480 unit/shift

(b) Capacity with two shift:

Total number of machines = 6
Shift hours per day = 8 hours
So total factory capacity (in hours) for one day in two shifts

= 2*Number of Machine* shift hour per day

= 2*6*8 hours = 96 hours

So, total factory capacity (in hours) for one year in two shifts=

=Total factory capacity in one day in two shifts* Number of working days in a year               

=96 hours *340*60 /40= 48960 unit/shift

So, Annual Capacity with two shift=48960 unit/shift.

(c) Break –even volume with single shift

Given:

Fixed cost for one shift=$ 60,000

Unit Variable cost: $ 7

Selling Price: $12

To calculate C (contribution per unit) = Selling price of one unit(SP) - Variable cost per unit (VC)

C=SP-VC

=$ 12-$7= $ 5

So, Break-even volume (BEV) = $ Fixed Cost FC/C ($ contribution per unit)

=$ 60,000/ $5= $12,000

So Break even volume with single shift=$12,000

(d) Maximum revenue with single shift

Maximum revenue with single shift = Annual capacity with single shift * Selling Price

  24,480 * ($12) = $29,3760

(e)Break even volume with two shift operation

Given:

Fixed cost for one shift=$ 60,000s = 2*$60,000= $120,000

So Fixed cost for two shift

Unit Variable cost: $ 7

Selling Price: $12

To calculate C (contribution per unit) = Selling price of one unit(SP) - Variable cost per unit (VC)

C=SP-VC

=$ 12-$7= $ 5

So, Break-even volume (BEV) = $ Fixed Cost FC/C ($ contribution per unit)

=$ 120,000 / $5= $24,000

So Break even volume with single shift=$24,000

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